User talk:Rocky228

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Hello, Rocky228, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Quinn Sullivan, which appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

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About that conflict of interest

Greetings! I notice that you are claiming to be the photographer of File:Quinn Sullivan 2020.jpg, an image that appears to be a publicity photo and that you added to the Quinn Sullivan article.

Could you please clarify what your relationship is with Sullivan? Please note that editors who are paid to edit Wikipedia articles must disclose this per WP:PAID. —C.Fred (talk) 19:07, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

• I have added this discloser to Talk:Beth Hart on your behalf, since you stated that you work for her. —C.Fred (talk) 19:13, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

Editing artist page, discography section

Rocky228,

I reverted your recent edits in Beth Hart's article, in the discography section. Since I know you have an interest and a responsibility to keep the page accurate and informative, I thought I would let you know one of the guidelines for editing musician articles. There is a whole Wikipedia guideline for musician articles, Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians/Article guidelines. The relevant section for this discussion is Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians/Article guidelines#Discography section. To quote some sentences in the guideline, "Musicians who have released a significant amount of work should be given their own discography articles." "he discography section of the musician's primary article should also provide a summary of the musician's major works. In most cases this is done using a simple list of their studio albums, leaving a complete listing of releases to the discography article." "Live and compilation albums, EPs, singles, etc. should generally not be included."

I don't want you to be discouraged that your edit was reverted, I just want you to understand why, as I expect to see your efforts in the future on Beth Hart's article, and I wish to avoid acrimonious conflict. Mburrell (talk) 03:50, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

Any chance a wiki editor will do the discography correctly? Wiki is so not my strong suit Rocky228 (talk) 00:16, 17 April 2022 (UTC)

Please review the discography article Beth Hart discography and tell me what is incorrect about the discography listing. I can try and fix whatever issues you see, but to me it looks like the discography has been done correctly. If you are asking if the discography listing at Beth Hart#Discography will be corrected, it also looks correct to me per the guidelines provided, Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians/Article guidelines#Discography section.

I understand that Wikipedia might not be your strong suit, but I just want to state that there are a large variety of guidelines for various articles. I am not familiar with all the guidelines myself, but when I do find a relevant guideline, I try to remember it, and in this case, I provided a link to you so that you could see what it is stating as well. Think of the guidelines as an operating manual, just like the manuals put out by your camera manufacturer or your washing machine manufacturer. Just read the sections that apply to the action you want to take. Finding them could be a challenge, but that is why other editors would be glad to point them out as needed. - Mburrell (talk) 23:05, 17 April 2022 (UTC)

Hi Mburrell,

Thanks for your help. So sorry I didn't see this message sooner. Rocky228 (talk) 16:42, 27 August 2022 (UTC)